Cigar.



Patented July 30, |90I. J. G. PAINT.

No. 679,54l.

Cl G A R (Applicatio lcd Nov. 8, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN GUELLE PAINT, OF PORT HATKESBURY, CANADA.

CIGAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 679,541, dated July 30, 1901.

Application filed November 3, 1900. Serial No. 35,384. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN GUELLE PAINT, a subject of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Port Hawkesbury, in the county of Inverness, Province of Nova Scotia, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Cigar-makers in large factories frequently work tobacco with unclean and diseased hands,so that the cigar is laden with disease germs which are liable to be communicated to a smokers lips during the consumption of a cigar. Many smokers resort for hygienic reasons to the use of cigar-holders, but these are not universally employed,because they tend to restrict the draft through the cigar by compressing the tobacco tightly in order to make the cigar remain xed in the holder, and,furthermore, many smokers like to feel with the end of the tongue and the lips the tip end of the cigar. This, however, is objectionable to some smokers, because the contact of the lip and tongue with tobacco induces an excessive flow of saliva which produces nausea and excessive spitting.

To overcome these objections andproduce a simple and cheap smokers hygienic art-ificial cigar-cap is the object of the present invention, which cap makes provision for shielding the smokers lips from direct contact with the tobacco, and thereby reducing the ow of saliva and the consequent nausea, besides affording to the consumer the satisfaction of feeling the soft spongy article in the mouth and also giving the enjoyment of the free draft in smoking the cigar.

In the drawings hereto annexed, forming a part of this specification, Figure l is a side view of a cigar with a hygienic cap applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the application of the cap. Fig. 3 is a view of the cap-blank detached.

The same numerals of reference denote like parts in each ligure of the drawings.

5 designates an ordinary cigar or cheroot, and 6 is the hygienic cap, which is applied to the curl tip-end portion of the cigar. This cap is of paper, possibly of the kind known as rice-paper, and it is in two, three, or more plies. As shown by Fig. 3, the plies of rice-paper are su perposed to secure the necessary stiffness and stren gthin the cap-blank, and the latter is coiled or wrapped around the tip portion of the cigar, as shown by Fig. 2. The inner end portion of the cap-blank is secured in place on the cigar by a suitable adhesive, and it is necessary to apply an adhesive to the overlapping portions of the capblank. The cap is applied to the cigar at the time of its manufacture and before packing the latter in a box, or in some cases it may be renewed and attached by the smoker. The end portion of the cap is twisted together, as at 8, so as to whollyinclose the tip end of the cigar. This twisted end of the cap is adapted to be severed, as indicated by line a ct, Fig. l, when the cigar-tip is cut off pre` liminary to lighting the cigar. It will be readily seen, therefore, that the cap not only serves to shield the smokers lips when in use, but as the cap is attached prior to the packing of the cigar in the box its presence will not prevent a purchaser or user when selecting from the box readily examining the complete cigar, a result not obtainable Where the cigar is entirely wrapped in a removable cover. In addition the cap serves while the cigars are in the box to prevent a tendency of the same to break at the tip end. By providing a construction in which the end of the strip of paper is elongated andtwistcd a substantially inclosing cap is formed for the tip end of the cigar, the twisting not only closing up the exposed end, but the act of twisting tightening the paper about the end of the cigar, and thereby practically molding it to the shape of the tip. It is, however, of especial advantage in the case lof cheroots, (in which the end or tip is cut off when manufactured,) the twisted end in this class of goods forming the equivalent of the tip end of a cigar in so far as the closing of the end of the cigar is concerned, thereby preventing to some extent the drying out of the interior of the cheroot. It may be added that it would not be absolutely necessary to apply the adhesive, (although such is preferable,) as the twisting when the cigar-tip is of a proper shape would be sufficient to hold the cap firmly to the tip.

A cigar equipped with a paper cap is sweeter,

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more lasting, and safer to the smoker. It is economical, because the covered tip remaining comparatively dry no bitter end is developed, as when a cigar is thrown away only half smoked.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new is l. A cigar having the surface of its body portion exposed and having at its tip end an auxiliary cap or covering wrapped spirally thereon to closely iit the end of the cigar, the inner end of said covering being adhesively secured to the cigar, the free end being twisted, whereby the tip end will be normally inclosed, the twisted portion of said cap being cut off with the tip end of the cigar, the remaining portion of the cap forming a mouthpiece.

cigar having the surface ofl its body portion exposed and having at its tip end an auxiliary cap or covering, said cap or covering consisting of an elongated strip of ricevpaper having at one end an adhesive adapted.

to secure the inner end of the strip to the cigar, said strip being wound spirally about the tip end, the free end of the strip being twisted, whereby the tip end will be normally closed, the twisted portion of said cap being out off with the tip end of the cigar, the remaining portion of the cap forminga mouthpiece.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN GUELLE PAINT.

Witnesses:

A. F. DIcKsoN, JAMES MCLURE. 

